"Today, the three-member Wayne County Election Commission met in session to review a challenge filed by activist Robert Davis to remove Wayne County Commissioner Kevin M. McNamara (D-Belleville) from the August 5 primary election ballot as a candidate for county executive," McNamara's campaign said in a release Friday. "The Election Commission reviewed prior legal decisions and found that the objection filed by Mr. Davis was without merit."

Davis of Highland Park claimed a seated Wayne County Commissioner could not run for another elected office.

"His argument was based on a pre-Civil War Michigan Statute that stated no sitting county commissioner can run for another county office," McNamara spokesman Bryan Peckinpaugh said in an email to MLive Friday. "However, in 2002 the Wayne County Circuit Court, specifically the Honorable Judge Timothy Kenny, overruled that argument when then-Wayne County Commissioner Ricardo Solomon filed to run for Wayne County Executive."